In America…What if instead of buying a gift card from our favorite local businesses, we walked in and handed them a no-strings-attached check? As a very Merry Christmas and a very heartfelt thank you for keeping the doors open in the face of rising rents, rising costs and rising risks. I am distinguishing and simultaneously blurring the definition of customer and patron. Because I think we need a new model or we will be overrun by the banality of national chains.
Amen, sister!